front 1 Able to move quickly and easily | back 1 agile |
front 2 without feeling | back 2 apathetic |
front 3 a destructive fire, usually an extensive one | back 3 conflagration |
front 4 floating material | back 4 flotsam |
front 5 very faint | back 5 imperceptible |
front 6 acting quickly without thought | back 6 impetuous |
front 7 relentless, unstoppable | back 7 implacable |
front 8 cannot be touched | back 8 intangible |
front 9 a beginner | back 9 novice |
front 10 a quality that evokes sadness | back 10 pathos |
front 11 evoking sadness | back 11 poignant |
front 12 attractively unusual | back 12 quaint |
front 13 sparkiling | back 13 scintillant |
front 14 move sideways cautiously | back 14 sidle |
front 15 in waves | back 15 undulation |
front 16 unusual; unfamiliar | back 16 unwonted |
front 17 to go in a specific direction/ to wind | back 17 wend |
front 18 with longing | back 18 wistful |
front 19 marks a period of sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world | back 19 modernism |
front 20 1815 - 1945 | back 20 modernism |
front 21 WWI advanced weapons killed soldiers and civilians, more casualties than ever before - undermined faith in authorities, traditions, and beliefs | back 21 modernism |
front 22 Radios, movies, etc. reshaped daily life - new major cities emerged - new scientific theories changed perceptions of reality and humanity | back 22 modernism |
front 23 writers begin to see knowledge as relative and address subconscious motivations | back 23 modernism |
front 24 people no longer trusted the world's values and sought new ideas - writers experimented with new approaches and techniques - marked by extreme and turbulent social shifts | back 24 modernism |
front 25 Ernest Hemingway -> Cat in the Rain | back 25 modernism |
front 26 F. Scott Fitzgerald | back 26 modernism |
front 27 James Joyce | back 27 modernism |
front 28 T.S. Eliot | back 28 modernism |
front 29 Hemingway -> the most important part of the story should lay below the surface so it can shine through (iceberg theory) | back 29 modernism |
front 30 literary devices secretly conveyed vital elements of a story | back 30 modernism |
front 31 Depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people | back 31 realism |
front 32 1865- 1900 | back 32 realism |
front 33 after the civil war Americans were less optimistic | back 33 realism |
front 34 America's population grew rapidly - science, industry, and transportation expanded - the frontier changed | back 34 realism |
front 35 new writers rejected romanticism and transcendentalism whose ideas were irrelevant and out of date | back 35 realism |
front 36 sought to render common people and ordinary life accurately - complex ordinary people > heroes and villains | back 36 realism |
front 37 sought to present life objectively and accurately - used detached narration | back 37 realism |
front 38 focused on sharp contrasts in society - captains of industry vs immigrants and laborers | back 38 realism |
front 39 showed the daily struggles of ordinary people | back 39 realism |
front 40 a mid 19th century movement encouraging people to transcend to a higher spiritual level | back 40 transcendentalism |
front 41 1836 - 1865 | back 41 transcendentalism |
front 42 Immanuel Kant | back 42 transcendentalism |
front 43 reaction to contemporary society | back 43 transcendentalism |
front 44 Hinduism and Budism | back 44 transcendentalism |
front 45 nature | back 45 transcendentalism |
front 46 God is in everything | back 46 transcendentalism |
front 47 nature is sacred and the source of truth | back 47 transcendentalism |
front 48 humans are inherently good | back 48 transcendentalism |
front 49 individuality > conformity | back 49 transcendentalism |
front 50 intuition > logic/learned reason | back 50 transcendentalism |
front 51 created a unique American literature - elevated essays and nature writings | back 51 transcendentalism |
front 52 Social reform starts w/ the individual | back 52 transcendentalism |
front 53 all for abolition and women's rights | back 53 transcendentalism |
front 54 education institutions must be reformed | back 54 transcendentalism |
front 55 Ralph Waldo Emerson -> Nature and Self-Reliance - Father of transcendentalism | back 55 transcendentalism |
front 56 Henry David Thoreau -> Walden, battle of the Ants, Civil disobedience | back 56 transcendentalism |
front 57 Walt Whitman -> leaves of Grass, A noiseless patient Spider - Father of Free Verse | back 57 transcendentalism |
front 58 A form of romanticism focusing on the macabre and perverse aspects of human nature, characterized by dark elements such as gloomy settings and disturbed characters | back 58 gothic |
front 59 Mystery, terror, madness, secrets, blood, death, curses, pain, cruelty | back 59 gothic |
front 60 dark castles, haunted mansions, cemeteries, dungeons, dark, stormy nights, clouds and winds | back 60 gothic |
front 61 demons and angels, ghosts, the devil, maniacs and madmen, magicians, villains, tyrants, vampires, werewolves, monsters | back 61 gothic |
front 62 goths were ancient Germanic warrior tribes called barbarians - French style Medieval architecture was viewed as barbaric by Italians and called Gothic - the literal setting and mood of dark medieval castles gave Gothic literature its name | back 62 gothic |
front 63 Edgar Allan Poe -> The Black Cat | back 63 gothic |
front 64 Washington Irving -> The Devil and Tom Walker | back 64 gothic |
front 65 Nathaniel Hawthorne -> Legend of Sleepy Hollow | back 65 gothic |
front 66 1764 - 1832 | back 66 gothic |
front 67 Emphasized emotions over reason and power | back 67 romanticism |
front 68 1820 - 1865 (civil war) | back 68 romanticism |
front 69 Thomas Chatterton -> celebrity | back 69 romanticism |
front 70 William Wordsworth charmed England with poetry | back 70 romanticism |
front 71 Fransisco Goya -> The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters | back 71 romanticism |
front 72 jean Jacques Rousseau idealizes children's goodness | back 72 romanticism |
front 73 Goethe -> The Sorrows of Young Werther | back 73 romanticism |
front 74 Emphasis on imagination and emotions | back 74 romanticism |
front 75 Intuition > reason/calculation | back 75 romanticism |
front 76 imagination > intellect | back 76 romanticism |
front 77 Innocence in uncorrupted by society | back 77 romanticism |
front 78 inspiratin > rationalism | back 78 romanticism |
front 79 inner experience > second hand knowledge | back 79 romanticism |
front 80 emphasized supernatural/spiritual nostalgia | back 80 romanticism |
front 81 light and dark side | back 81 romanticism |
front 82 short stories, poems, essays, travelogues, "penny press" | back 82 romanticism |
front 83 Edgar Allan Poe -> The Black Cat, Annabel lee, The Rave, The Fall of the House | back 83 romanticism (dark) |
front 84 Washington Irving -> Rip Van Winkle | back 84 romanticism (dark) |
front 85 Nathaniel Hawthorne -> Legend of Sleepy Hollow | back 85 romanticism (dark) |
front 86 A period characterized by a change away from traditional religious sources of authority and a move toward science and rational thought | back 86 Age of Reason |
front 87 Mid 1600s to the end of the 1700s | back 87 Age of Reason |
front 88 Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes are the Fathers of the Enlightenment | back 88 Age of Reason |
front 89 Early scientists = philosphers | back 89 Age of Reason |
front 90 Newton created calculus and discovered laws of motion and gravity | back 90 Age of Reason |
front 91 Distrusted the mythical and mysterious | back 91 Age of Reason |
front 92 human reason was glorified (logic and reason can solve issues) | back 92 Age of Reason |
front 93 faith in senses (empiricism) | back 93 Age of Reason |
front 94 sense of ntionalism | back 94 Age of Reason |
front 95 belief in progress through education | back 95 Age of Reason |
front 96 belief in basic human goodness | back 96 Age of Reason |
front 97 God created the universe but is not involved (deism) | back 97 Age of Reason |
front 98 political documents, autobiographies, speeches, pamphlets, tracts | back 98 Age of Reason |
front 99 Benjamin Franklin -> Poor Richard's Almanac | back 99 Age of Reason |
front 100 Thomas Jefferson -> Declaration fo Independence | back 100 Age of Reason |
front 101 Samuel Adams -> constitution | back 101 Age of Reason |
front 102 Patrick Henry -> speech to the second virginia convention | back 102 Age of Reason |
front 103 Thomas Paine -> Common Sense | back 103 Age of Reason |
front 104 World can be understood and explained | back 104 Age of Reason |
front 105 nature is governed by laws | back 105 Age of Reason |
front 106 Cause and Effect - there is a rational explanation for each natural phenomenon | back 106 Age of Reason |